Scrum Tapas: The Importance of Professionalism

I believe that to create great software you need to have Professional Teams and not just amateur Teams. However most software teams are amateurs that don’t follow the rules, don’t subscribe to engineering excellence, and don’t follow the values and principals

Scrum Tapas is a series of short videos that give you a bite sized look into the Scrum world on a specific topic.

Did you know that the DOD has made it illegal to do waterfall? For the first time in many years the Department of Defence (DOD) in the United States had made a major update to its procurement rules. They can no longer be held accountable for holding up our industry, and being culpable for its inability to move towards agility. The last vestiges of the old ways are gone.

To my understanding there is a frustrating misunderstanding of reality when one thinks that the Product Owner can reject a single story at the Sprint Review. This is the fallacy of the rejected backlog item.